Trump's Budget Cuts Meals on Wheels

People Are Sharing Their Incredible Meals on Wheels Stories to Show Why It Shouldn't Be Cut

Does it strike you as compassionate to cut funding for a program that feeds the elderly in need? According to the Mick Mulvaney, the new Office of Management and Budget director, defunding Meals on Wheels to ensure tax dollars are efficiently used is "about as compassionate as you can get."

The White House is actually arguing that cutting funding for Meals on Wheels is the compassionate thing to do. Seriously. pic.twitter.com/3u6znZRrAa

During a press conference on March 16, Mulvaney presented "America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again" — aka the president's proposed budget. CNN's Jim Acosta asked Mulvaney if Trump's budget is "hard-hearted." Mulvaney responded, "I think it's one of the most compassionate things we can do."

Mulvaney then attempted to explain how Trump's budget cuts are actually beneficial to other Americans (who aren't elderly or hungry). "We're trying to focus on both the recipients of the money and the folks that give us the money in the first place," Mulvaney said. "I think it's fairly compassionate to go to them and say 'We're not going to ask you for your hard-earned money anymore.'"

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President Trump's new budget proposal would eliminate, among other programs, a $3 billion community development block grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development that includes the Meals on Wheels program. The White House claims that the grant has "not demonstrated results."